Dorothy Day (1897-1980)Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 8, 1897, Dorthy Day was a very influential person in the Catholic economic way of life. Her father, John Day, was unemployed when she was little, which gave her empathy for others, and later in life, because she also knows what it's like to be there. When she moved to Chicago, her life improved. His father became a sports editor for a major Chicago newspaper. In 1914, she received a scholarship to the University of Illinois at Urbana. She was not very sociable at school, mostly keeping to herself. Two years later, she dropped out of school to move to New York and become a journalist. In 1917, she was arrested for protesting the exclusion of women from the electorate outside the capital and was thrown in prison only for protesting the exclusion of women from the electorate. being released shortly afterwards. This was the first of many arrests in Dorothy's future. When she was a child, Dorothy visited an episcopic church from time to time. She also sometimes attended St. Joseph's Church in New York, but certainly not regularly. She was really interested in the Catholic church and what it had to offer, but she didn't know much about it. She had a few Catholic friends with whom she spent time during her studies and afterward. When she had a child named Tamar, she decided to make her Catholic. She had Tamar baptized, and then she herself was baptized, deciding to devote her life to good things. She met Peter Maurin, who was twenty years older and an experienced former Catholic brother. They talked and listened, and Peter said Dorothy should start a journal to publish all her ideas and stuff. So she took his advice and went out and bought a printing press and installed it in her kitchen. She charged a penny for a copy and called it The Catholic Worker. Everyone loved it and after a while homeless people started showing up at the door. Because of the journal writings, they wanted to stay with Dorothy and Peter and of course, they let them stay. Many people came to stay there and opened these houses all over the country to provide